Required information The following information applies to the questions displayed below! Cane Company manufactures two products called Alpha and Beta that sell for $215 and $160, respectively. Each product uses only one type of raw material that costs $7 per pound. The company has the capacity to annually produce 125,000 units of each product. Its average cost per unit for each product at this level of activity are given below. Direct materials Alpha Beta Direct Tabor $ 42 $ 21 Variable manufacturing overhead 35 28 23 21 Traceable fixed Manufacturing overhead 31 34 Variable selling expenses 28 24 Common fixed expenses 31 26 Total cost per unit $190 $154 The company considers its traceable fixed manufacturing overhead to be avoidable, whereas its common fixed expenses are unavoidable and have been allocated to products based on sales dollars 8. Assume that Cane normally produces and sells 76,000 Betas and 96,000 Alphas per year. I Cane discontinues the Beta product line, its sales representatives could increase sales of Alpha by 16.000 units. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage of discontinuing the Beta product line